Music of the Spheres
All our stories are social/concepual constructs
All our stories are social/concepual constructs
Science can alter, limit, vet our mind map stories of Nature, the nature of things.
“Science is a way to teach how something gets to be known, what is not known, to what extent things are known (for nothing is known absolutely), how to handle doubt and uncertainty, what the rules of evidence are, how to think about things so that judgments can be made, how to distinguish truth from fraud, and form show.” — Richard Feynman
The above is based on an outline version, The Music of the Spheres, with notes. There is a poster size image to print.
At bottom, actual photo of sunset through Earth’s atmosphere as seen from orbit and above is a Hubble Ultra Deep Field view.
The memeosphere map is humancentric, of, by, and for humans, but humans are part of the cosmos as a subsystem of the biosphere that will select for what works and against what doesn’t (e.g. modern techno-industrial culture). Viewing the planet as a resource for the taking selects for short-term prosperity only.
Posterity will be consequenced for our taking of the planet, possibly unto extinction.
‘Magical leverage points are not easily accessible, even if we know where they are and which direction to push on them. There are no cheap tickets to mastery. You have to work hard at it, whether that means rigorously analyzing a system or rigorously casting off your own paradigms and throwing yourself into the humility of Not Knowing. In the end, it seems that mastery has less to do with pushing leverage points than it does with strategically, profoundly, madly, letting go and dancing with the system.’ [Donella Meadows, Thinking in Systems: A Primer]
Professions/disciplines, serving the humancentric monetary culture, school young humans so they can become productive commoners or elites serving the growth hegemon.
Another mind map.
